Adjustable support and bracket for shade-rollers and curtains.



T. E. JOHNSON. ADJUfiTABLE SUPPORT AND BRAGKBT FOB. SHADE RLLERS ANDCURTAINS. APPLICATION FILED APBJEO, 1

947,240. Patented Jan. 25, 1910.

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UNITED STAIES PATENT oFFIo THOMAS E. JOHNSON, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS,ASSIGNOR BY manor .mn 1mm ASSIGNMENTS, 0F ONE-TWELF'I'H '10 F. M.STEGALL, TWO-TWELFTHS 'IO W. K.

ALLEN, ONE-TWELFTH TO GRANT STEGALL, ONE-TWELFTH TO C. A. 'ST'EGALL, AND

ONE-TWELFTH TO ARTHUR STEGALL. ALL OF FORTH WORTI I, TEXAS.

ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT AND BRACKET 'FOR SHADE-ROLLERS AND CURTAINS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .1 an. 25, 1910.

Application filed April 20, 1909. Serial N0? 481,123.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. JOHNSON, of Fort North, Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Supports andBrackets for Shadeliollers and Curtains, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to supports for roller shades and curtains, and theobject is to provide simple devices which are adjustable to the facingsof windows of any ordinary construction and which consist of leteraliyextensible supports which carry their own attaching devices and ofbrackets which are movably attached to the -supports.

Other objects and advantages will be fully explained in the followingdescription and the invention will be more particularly pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is had to' the accompanying drawings which form a part of thisappiica- Figure l is a perspective view of the sup ports and brackets.Fig. 2 is a plan view of a hill size blank for forming one of thesupbinder 13 integral with the base. The binder 13 is connected to thebase 12 by a. neck 14 and the binder incloses a portion of the support 1between the binder and the base. The binder is further secured to thesupport 1 by a tongue 15 which is integral with the binder and is bentthrou h the slot 16 and then bent down on the ase. The brackets 7 and 8could be made rigid on the support by clamping the tongue 16 firmly onthe base, but it is sufiicient to leave the base loose enough to bemovable on the support. By reason of the slot 2 in the support the base12 can be moved to difi'erent positions. The brackets are thusadjustable for different lengths of shade rollers.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is,-

1. Roller shade and curtain brackets and bracket supports comprisinglaterally extensihlc slotted supporting bars, means for attuching said.bars to the window facings. means or connecting the inner ends of saidburs together, brackets mounted on said bars,

ports. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the supports and binders on the oppositesides of said V Fig. 5 l

curing the supports to dow. Fig. 4 is a bro taken along the line w w ofFig. 1. V is a. plan view of a. blank which is to form n bracket. 1Similar characters of reference are used l to indicate the same partsthroughout the l several views. The bracket supports include bars 1which i have slots 2 therein and spurs 3 on one end and a. clamp 4provided with a bolt 5 and l nut 6. The bolt 5 passes through the slotsi 2. The supports 1 can thus .be clamped toother to hold the supports onwindow fuc- 1 mgs of difl'ercnt sizes of windows. The} spurs 3 are firstdriven in the outer edges l of the facings. The clamp and the bolt andnut are then adjusted on the lapped ends of 1 the supports. The brackets7 and 8 have hooks 9 for supporting a curtain pole and i bearings 10 andll for the roller of the l shade. Euch bracket has' a base 12 and a iwindow fucin s. means burs from said bru-izkcts and having necks saidbars'und integral with said brackets said brackets to said bars.

:2. Roller shade and curtain brackets and bracket supports comprisinglaterally exten sible slotted bars provided with hooked spurs to bedriven into the outer edges of for connecting the inner ends 0 saidslotted bars together, brackets provided with buses movably mounted onsaid slotted burs, und binders integral with said bases and connectedtherewith by necks running through the slots of said bars.

3. Roller shade and curtain brackets and bracket supports comprisin vlaterally extensible slotted bars provided with hooks on their outerends to be driven into the outer edges of window facings. means forconnectng the inner ends of said burs together,

on the opgosite sides of said slotted bars the resence of two witnesses,this 16th day from said ases and integral with said bases of pril, 1909.and connected therewith by necks running through the slots in said bars,said binders THOMAS JOHNSON s havin tongues projecting through the slotsWitnesses:

in sai bars and bent on said bases. A. L. JACKEON,

In testimony whereof, I set my hand in I J. W. STETT.

